Adjustable skirt hanger



N. J'. SCGHELD. ADiUSTABLE SKIRT HANGER.

APPLICATIDN FILED AUG.23. 192|.

1,41 0,41 1. Patented Mar. 21, 1922.

2 SHEETS-s115511.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

NEWTON J'. SCOFIELD, OF NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA.

ADJUSTABLE SKIRT HANGER.

Application filed August 23,'V 1921.

-an efficient skirt hanger for display and like purposes whereby the dimensions thereof may be suited to those of the skirt with a view to supporting the latter to the best advantage from a display point of view, the adjustability of the hanger being controlled by centrally located means or means arranged adjacent to or in connection with the supporting hook for the hanger, so that the extension or contraction is equalized in opposite directions from the point ofsuspension wit-hout special adjustment or attention on the part of the operator to insure an even hanging of the garment; and with these objects in view the invention consists in a construction and combination of parts of which a preferred embodiment is shown in the accompanying drawings, wherein:

Figure l is a perspective view of a hanger embodying the invention indicating in dotted lines a skirt supported thereon.

Figures 2 and 3 are detail sectional views respectively at right angles to each other of the central supporting post.

Figure l is a detail view of the revoluble stem by which relative -adjustmentof the members of the hanger is eii'ected.

Figure 5 is a similar view of the locking cli liigure 6 is a similar view of one of the flange retaining washers. Y

Figure 7 is a perspective view of one of the frame members.

The hanger consists essentially of a normally horizontal, longitudinally extensible frame 10 supported by a centrally located post 11 provided with means for relatively adjusting the members 10a-l0b of the frame and Jforflocking the same in their adjusted positions, and also having a suspending hook or eye 12 by which the hanger may be suspended from a rod, nail or like means of suspension.

The frame members are of complemental forniV and construction, each consisting of a single rod of wire doubled upon itself at an Specicaton of Letters Patent.

Patented Mar. 21, 1922.

Serial No. 494,611.

intermediate portion of its length to provide a loop 13 having a shoulder 14 upon which the waistband of the skirt indicated 1n dotted lines at l5 may rest, the arms representing the terminal portions of the blank being extended in substantial parallelism to provldeupper and lower arms 15 and 16 with the corresponding arms of each membei" arranged in overlapping relation and extending through the supporting post 11.

The extremity of each arm is provided with a guide 'eye 17 to slidingly embrace the corresponding arm of the other member.

The supporting post embodies a revoluble Y stem 18 having spaced toothed portions or pinions 19 and 20 `for respective engagement with rack teeth 21 and 22 on the facing surfaces respectively of the upper and lower arms or elements 15 and 16 of the frame members to theend that the rotation of the stem in one direction or the other will cause the simultaneous extension or contraction kin opposite directions of the two members,

to an equal extent. Threaded upon the upper end of the stem is a thimble 23 having a neck or reduced portion 24 forming a seat for a ring 25 of the suspending hook or eye 12 to the end that the latter is swiveled on the thimble, and also threaded upon said stem is a lock or jam nut 26 serving to secure the thimble against turning movement independently of the stern.

Correspondingly threaded upon the lower end of the stem is a nut 27 adjacent to which is arranged a lock or jam nut 28, and fitted upon the stem adjacent to the planes respectively of the upper and lower arms or elements of the frame members are the reversely disposed washers 29 and 30 held in place by a spacing sleeve 31 fitted upon the stem and interposed between said washers, the latter being providedl respectively with upwardly and'downwardly directed ears 29* and 30a which form lateral guides to prevent transverse displacement of ,the arms or elements which extend therebetween. lock nuts 26 and 27 span respectivelyV the in'- ter'vals between the guide ears 29a and 30a of the washers 29 and 30 and complete guides whichl retain the intermediate portions of the arms or elements of the extensible members in proper relation with the toothed pinion portions of the stem.

Fitted for axial sliding movement upon the thirnble 23 is ai' locking member 31pm- 10oy The A 27 turn with thev stem.

vided with depending 'flanges 32 having seats or notches 33 which When the locking device is in its normal or depressed position straddle the upper arms or elements of theeX- tensible frames, and as the interval between the flanges oi the locking device corresponds with the Width or diameter of the nut 26, the `turning of the stem, to vary the-relative adjustment of the members of the frame is prevented When the locking device is in its normal position.- To permit of turning the stem as for example by manually turning the thimble 23, to adapt the frame to skirts having dilerent waist measurements, it is necessary to raise the locking device 3l to disengage the seats or notches 33 from the upper arms or elements of the frame members, and when thus raised the locking device maybe turned slightly to cause said seats or notches to engage the angles of the nut 26 so as to'be held or temporarily locked in vthe inoperative position While the required adjustment of the frame members is being eiected. Obviously it is only necessary to slightly raise and then turn the locking device and drop it into its normalv position t0 effect the engagement or' the seats or notches 33 with the upper arms or elements of the frame members to lock the stem against further adjustment.

The construction described provides for `an extension of the frame to adapt it to properly support and display skirts having diii'erentjwaist or belt measurements While maintaining thesupporting post or means of suspension in the center of the length of the apparatus so that the hanger When supported will occupy a horizontal position and thereby display the garment to the best advantage.

Y* Moreover it will be obvious that the adjustment as to length or' the supporting frame may he effected `while the suspending hook or eye 12 is in engagementwith a supporting object in view oil'. the sivivel connection betweenthe thimblep` and said hook or eye, andthat in turning the thimble to effect an adjustment oit the trame-members the stemV rotates within the spacing sleeve El and independently thereof and ci the `Washers 29 and 30 While the nutsQGi and j j Having described the invention, what is claimed asneyv `and useful io j l.V .A ski-rt hangerhaving a frame consisting of `Relatively adjustable members pro-V vided With parallel arms arranged inover- 4lapping relaticn, and a supportingpost having guides for said arms or, elements and provided with means for rotation to effect equal adjustment in opposite directions ol said members. j

2. A skirt hanger having a frame consisting of relatively adjustable members provided with. ,arms arranged in Overlapping relation, and a supporting posthaving guides for said arms or elements and prolapping relatioinand a supporting postV having guidesfor said arms or elements, and means for effecting equal adjustment in opposite directions of said members, and consisting ot' a stem having pinions for engaging racks on `said arms or elements ofthe members and guiding Vmeans straddling the corresponding armsor elements for holding them in operative Vrelation with said pinions and having a swivel mounting upon the stem. j

t. A skirt hanger having a frame consisting of relatively adjustable members providedA with parallel-arms arrangedin overlapping' relation, and a supporting post having guides for said arms or elements, and meansior effecting equal adjustment in opposite directions of saidmembers, and consisting or' -a terminally threaded stem having pinions for interposition between toothed corresponding arms or elements of the members7 guiding elements consisting oll Washers having reversely directed ears toV straddle and guide the corresponding arms or elements of the members and secure itin place byV a spacing sleeve embracing the stern and interposed between said Washers, and nuts threaded upon the terminalportions of the stem for respectively closing the spaces between the flanges-Vor ears of said Washers. f Y

5. -A skirt hanger having a frame consisting of relatively adjustable membersprovided with parallel Varms arranged in 'overlapping relation, and a supporting post having giudes for said arms or elements, and

means for'el'ecting equal adjustment in opposite directions of said members, and consisting ot a revolublestem havingrpinions for arrangement between and engagement with racks on the cerresponding `arms-or ele-ments of said members, fand a locking device fer securing the` stem against rotary movement.` Y i 6; A skirt hanger having a frame consisting of relatively adjustable memberspro- .vided with parallel arms arranged in overlapping relation, and a-supporting post having guides for said arms-orelements,.and means for effecting equal adjustment in opposite directions of said members, and consisting of a revoluble stem havingrack and pinion engagement With Vcorresponding arms or elements of the said members and' a lacking-devise carried. by theaters and. baving an interlocking engagement therewith and with said arms or elements for securing the former against rotary movement.

7. A skirt hanger having a frame consisting of relatively adjustable members provided with parallel arms arranged in overlapping relation, and a supporting post 'having guides for said arms or elements, and means for eieeting equal adjustment in 0pposite directions of said members, and consisting of a rotary stem having a rack and pinion engagement with corresponding arms or elements of the frame members, a nut oarried by the stem, and a locking device consisting of a plate having' flanges spaced to engage said nut and provided with seats for selective engagement with corresponding arms 0r elements of the frame members and the angles of said nut.

In testimony whereof he axes his signature.

NEVTON J. SCOFIELD. 

